I am trying to find a story that I read online some time ago. (uploading, similar to “Accelerando”, “natural reserve” for humans)

Question

This is what I remember:

• I think the author was not a professional writer but the story was cited in other webs.

• A main theme was "uploading".

• The pace remembered me to "Accelerando" by Charles Stross: it covers a time period between the near future and the far future.

• The main character have fallen to a "town" that is surrender by walls where there is a landscape painted. It is a kind of "natural reserve" for humans. I think this is the first part of the story.

• The civilization out of the "natural reserve" was not very human friendly and the humans in there didn't know about outside.

• The main character was the first uploaded person. The story explains how he makes profit from this initially and how the different copies of him interact.

• I think that, at some point, there are two characters called Alpha and Omega.

Answer 1

It is a novella called "After Life" by Simon Funk, and is available online.

The text is longer than I remembered. Indeed, the main theme is uploading. At some point of the novella there are three characters called: "alpha", "beta" and "omega". They appear for a short time.

Currently a link to the novella appears in the Wikipedia page for "technological singularity".